Powerful Thoughts

When the spirit falls into smallness,
and the person finds no satisfaction in himself
because of his limited good deeds,
because of his list of wrongdoings
and because of his limited diligence in Torah
he should streghthen himself with "the secret of thought."
He should know that one who understands a thing from within a thing
his thought is considered before the Holy One as more than all the offereings.
Which means that the sacred thoughts - the lofty intelligent conceptions have the qualities of all the offerings
and the qualities of all the practical forms of worship
and it also has the qualities of the bodily aspect of learning Torah
- the saying of the words.
He should be very much fortified with the knowledge that may times the lessening of activity and study is a direct result of his great inclination for " the secret of thought,"
and that it is possible that many of his failures happened because he did not sufficiently respect his power of thought.
Therefore he should strenghthen his inner understanding,
to understand that the fixing of the wole world,
and the healing of all the souls,
is all dependent on "the secret of the thought,"
and he will elevate his thought as much as he can,
and rise up to return from an inner love.

Rav Kook